{"id":165,"date":"2026-04-22T13:28:57","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T13:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/?p=165"},"modified":"2026-04-22T13:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T13:30:10","slug":"former-intelligence-chief-suresh-sale-to-remain-in-detention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/2026\/04\/22\/former-intelligence-chief-suresh-sale-to-remain-in-detention\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Intelligence Chief Suresh Sale to Remain in Detention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Retired Major General Suresh Sale, former Director of the State Intelligence Service, will continue to remain under detention as ordered by the court.<\/p>\n<p>The Fort Magistrate\u2019s Court directed that the case be taken up again on May 20.<\/p>\n<p>Suresh Sale has been named as the third suspect by the Criminal Investigation Department in connection with ongoing investigations into the Easter Sunday attacks.<\/p>\n<p>During the previous hearing, the Magistrate had ordered that the suspect be produced before court, and he was accordingly brought before the court today.<\/p>\n<p>Further proceedings are expected at the next hearing as investigations continue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retired Major General Suresh Sale, former Director of the State Intelligence Service, will continue to remain under detention as ordered by the court. The Fort Magistrate\u2019s Court directed that the case be taken up again on May 20. Suresh Sale has been named as the third suspect by the Criminal Investigation Department in connection with &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":167,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions\/166"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}